Windows Workflow Community Blogs via Syndication

Announcing the release of AMQP support with Windows Azure Service Bus

Syndicated Workflow Author — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:42:37 GMT

For the past five years, Microsoft has been working with a diverse group of companies to develop the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard. The group of 20+ companies consisted of tech vendors, including Red Hat and VMware, and enterprises like JPMorgan Chase and Credit Suisse. The goal has been to build an open, wire-level protocol standard for messaging that enables easy interoperability between different vendor products. Back in October 2012, the OASIS standards organization announced...(read more)

Note to self - how to stop VS 2012 menus being all caps

Syndicated Workflow Author — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:49:14 GMT

reg ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General" /v "SuppressUpperCaseConversion" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 I just thought I'd put this here in case I ever lose the info again. :) Isn't setting up a new machine fun. Blog Post by: tilovell09...(read more)

New Workflow Manager 1.0 Getting Started Tutorial

Syndicated Workflow Author — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:32:46 GMT

A new Getting Started Tutorial for Workflow Manager 1.0 has been posted here: Workflow Manager 1.0 Getting Started Tutorial This is a 3 step tutorial which covers creating a custom activity, using it in a workflow, and publishing and invoking the workflow. It covers the use of the HttpSend activity, several of the DynamicValue activities, and also includes troubleshooting steps for common issues related to authoring, publishing, and invoking workflows. There is also a video walkthrough and a download...(read more)

SharePoint 2013 PowerPivot Management Dashboard empty

Syndicated Workflow Author — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:07:30 GMT

When you install the SharePoint BI stack, you need to create a PowerPivot Service application that will manage the PowerPivot workbooks via a very nice dashboard which unfortunately was empty in my Central Admin. no error, nothing in the ULS, just an empty page. To fix that, I activated the PowerPivot Administration feature in Central […] Blog Post by: sergeluca...(read more)

Note to self : Moving a SharePoint contentDB from dev to test

Syndicated Workflow Author — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:41:14 GMT

How to move a content db from a SharePoint Dev farm to a SharePoint test farm. step 1. backup the dev farm content db step 2. go to your test farm, copy the backup to the SQL Server backup location If you don’t know the default SQL server backup location, start SQL Server Management Studio […] Blog Post by: sergeluca...(read more)

The mystery of the missing URL validation

Syndicated Workflow Author — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:22:00 GMT

Further to my adventures with unobtrusive validation of yesterday, I found myself very stuck while implementing a new form for this new editable metadata feature for the NuGet Gallery. And Yet again the cause of all my pain appears to be this evil combination of UnobtrusiveValidation (2.0.30116.0) and JQuery.Validation (1.8.1). (I know it's not meant to be an evil combination, but believe me, it really starts to feel that way.)) For the sake of discussion, a feature I'm trying to add is the...(read more)

Regular expressions are different in javascript! And Unintrusive Validation.

Syndicated Workflow Author — Wed, 08 May 2013 02:59:29 GMT

Today while trying to implement some new code, and cutting my teeth on javascript validation, I disbelievingly realized that ALL of our client-side validation had stopped working. Like a month ago. And, nobody had noticed or complained! (As a brief reminder I now work on the NuGet Gallery.) Perhaps that just goes to show how little real value client-side form validation is providing our nuget.org users, who are a smart bunch. Especially when Server side validation is there (it's always going...(read more)

My SharePoint Saturday (Belgium, BIWUG) Slide deck

Syndicated Workflow Author — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:31:51 GMT

A week after the SharePoint Summit (Quebec) I had the pleasure last week to present a session on SharePoint 2013 and Business Intelligence with my partner in crime and colleague isabelle Van Campenhoudt (SQL Server MVP); the slide deck can be downloaded here. Blog Post by: sergeluca...(read more)

SharePoint Summit 2013 Quebec : my slide deck (SharePoint 2013 workflows)

Syndicated Workflow Author — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:53:51 GMT

les slides de ma session worflow SharePoint 2013; il est très rare que je donne des sessions en français… Blog Post by: sergeluca...(read more)

Announcing the Release of WebMatrix 3

Syndicated Workflow Author — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:53:06 GMT

I’m excited to announce the release of WebMatrix 3. WebMatrix is a free, lightweight web development tool we first introduced in 2010 , and which provides a great, focused web development experience for ASP.NET, PHP, and Node.js. Today’s release includes a ton of great new features. You can easily get started by downloading it, and watching an introduction video: Some of the highlights of today’s release include deep Windows Azure integration, source control tooling for Git...(read more)

Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET

Syndicated Workflow Author — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:37:03 GMT

This morning we released the v2.0 update of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. This is a major refresh of the Windows Azure SDK with some really great new features and enhancements. These new capabilities include: Web Sites : Visual Studio Tooling updates for Publishing, Management, and for Diagnostics Cloud Services: Support for new high memory VM sizes, Faster Cloud Service publishing & Visual Studio Tooling for configuring and viewing diagnostics data Storage : Storage Client 2.0 is now...(read more)

Windows Azure: Improvements to Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services and a new Ruby SDK

Syndicated Workflow Author — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:51:15 GMT

This morning we released some great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Virtual Networks : New Point-to-Site Connectivity (very cool!), Software VPN Device and Dynamic DNS Support Virtual Machines: Remote PowerShell and Linux SSH provisioning enhancements Cloud Services : Enable Remote Desktop Support Dynamically on Web/Worker Roles Ruby SDK : A new Windows Azure SDK support for Ruby All of these improvements are now available to start using immediately (note: some services...(read more)

Windows AzureConf this Tuesday

Syndicated Workflow Author — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:59:11 GMT

This Tuesday, April 23, we’ll be hosting Windows AzureConf – a free online event for and by the Windows Azure community. It will be streamed online from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST via Channel 9 , and you can watch it all for free. I’ll be kicking off the event with a Windows Azure keynote in the morning (a great way to learn more about Windows Azure if you haven’t used it yet!). Following my talk the rest of the day will be full of excellent presentations from members of the Windows Azure community...(read more)

ASP.NET Web API: CORS support and Attribute Based Routing Improvements

Syndicated Workflow Author — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:37:38 GMT

We’ve seen a huge adoption of ASP.NET Web API since its initial release. In February we shipped the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Update – which added a number of additional enhancements to both Web API and the other components of ASP.NET. The ASP.NET Team has been hard at work on developing the next set of features (lots of cool stuff coming). One of the great things about this work has been how the team has used the open source development process – which we announced we were adopting...(read more)

Windows Azure: General Availability of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Syndicated Workflow Author — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:01:44 GMT

This morning we announced the general availability release of our Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) support for Windows Azure – including our new Virtual Machine and Virtual Network capabilities. This release is now live in production, backed by an enterprise SLA, supported by Microsoft Support, and is ready to use for production apps. If you don’t already have a Windows Azure account, you can sign-up for a free trial and start using it today. In addition to supporting all of the features...(read more)

Windows Azure Global Bootcamp on April 27th – sign up now

Syndicated Workflow Author — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:55:53 GMT

On April 27, something very cool is happening. A bunch of Windows Azure MVP's and community activists are organizing a Global Windows Azure Bootcamp . This is a completely free, one-day training event for Windows Azure, all organized by the community, and presented in person all over the World. I’m not sure if this is the largest community event ever - it is very cool to see how many places this event is happening. Below is the location map as it stands today – and new locations are being...(read more)

Calling the SharePoint 2013 Rest API from a SharePoint Designer Workflow

Syndicated Workflow Author — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:16:38 GMT

At the moment you will find many examples illustrating how to call external JSon web services from SharePoint Designer 2013 workflows by using the Call activity, but we should keep in mind that the Call action works very well with the SharePoint REST api and this opens the door to plenty of possibilities. However you [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca...(read more)

Windows Azure: Active Directory Release, New Backup Service + Web Site Monitoring and Log Improvements

Syndicated Workflow Author — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:07:41 GMT

Today we released some great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Active Directory : General Availability release of Windows Azure AD – it is now ready for production use! Backup Service : New Service that enables secure offsite backups of Windows Servers in the cloud Web Sites : Monitoring and Diagnostic Enhancements All of these improvements are now available to start using immediately (note: some services are still in preview). Below are more details on them: Active Directory...(read more)

SharePoint 2013 workflows and content types : forget it

Syndicated Workflow Author — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:04:31 GMT

Creating and using content types in SharePoint is often considered as the best practice; however SharePoint workflows created for SharePoint 2013 cannot be associated anymore with content types. This is a very important point to consider if you are moving to the new platform In MSDN you can read “Unlike previous versions, SharePoint 2013 does [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca...(read more)

The Entity Framework Leaking

Syndicated Workflow Author — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:46:45 GMT

'Fluent Interfaces' have been a bit of a buzz for probably long enough that I am not justified in buzzing about them. I was pretty excited when first seeing them applied to databases in form of NHibernate and also kind of excited to see all that code-first-ness come to Entity Framework, which had never really convinced me with the whole 'visual design experience' thing it had when I first looked at it way back in EF 2 or whatever. Those were the days. Annnnyway... It went a long time...(read more)